Unit I:

The Renaissance, Reformation and the Wars of Religion

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Unit I Calendar

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Pre-1450 Europe

Corresponding chapters:

• Kagan Introduction (Companion website page)
• Kagan Chapter 9 (Companion website page)

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• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Byzantine Empire
• The Roman Catholic Church
• Feudalism
• Avignon Papacy (1305-1378)
• Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
• War of the Roses (1455-1485)
• Bubonic Plague (a.k.a. the Black Death, Black Plague)

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The Renaissance

Corresponding chapters:

• Kagan Chapter 10 (Companion website page)
• Fresh Note Helper #1

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• The Renaissance
• Literature
  • Dante
    • Divine Comedy (1321): Full Text version / Wikipedia "short" version
  • Boccaccio
    • The Decameron (1353): Full Text version / Wikipedia "short" version
  • Erasmus
    • In Praise of Folly (1511): Full Text version / Wikipedia "short" version
  • Thomas More
    • Utopia (1516): Full Text version / Wikipedia "short" version
  • Machiavelli
    • The Prince (1513): Full Text version / Wikipedia "short" version
    • Freccia Classwork assignment on The Prince
  • Petrarch
  • Shakespeare
  • Cervantes
• Art
  • Ghiberti
    • Sculpture: Gates of Paradise (1421)
  • Donatello
    • Bronze sculpture: David (c. 1440)
  • Botticelli
    • Painting: Primavera (1482)
    • Painting: Birth of Venus (1483)
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
    • Painting: The Last Supper (1498)
    • Painting: Mona Lisa (1507)
    • Other: Vitruvian Man (1492), Personal Notebooks
  • Raphael
    • Painting: The School of Athens (1510)
  • Michelangelo
    • Marble sculpture: Pieta (1499)
    • Marble sculpture: David (1504)
    • Painting: The Last Judgement (a.k.a. the Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1541)
  • Jan van Eyck
  • Rembrandt

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The Reformation

Corresponding chapters:

• Kagan Chapter 11 (Companion website page)
• Fresh Note Helper #2

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• The Protestant Reformation
• Reform in the Holy Roman Empire
  • Johann Tetzel
  • Martin Luther
    • 95 Theses (Full Text version / Wikipedia "short" version)
    • Lutherianism
  • Diet of Worms (1521)
    • Pope Leo X
    • HRE Charles V (a.k.a. Charles I of Spain)
  • Peasants War
• Reform in Switzerland
  • Huldrych Zwingli
  • John Calvin
    • Calvinism
    • Spinoff: John Knox's Presbyterian Church
• Reform in England
  • Henry VIII
    • Tudor Dynasty
    • Anglican Church
    • Act of Supremacy (Full Text version / Wikipedia "short" version)

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Religious Wars

Corresponding chapters:

• Kagan Chapter 12 (Companion website page)
• Fresh Note Helper #3

For more information, check out these short articles from Wikipedia...

• The Protestant Reformation
• Reform in France
  • Huguenots
  • French Wars of Religion
    • Bourbon Family
    • Guise Family
    • St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
    • Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France)
    • Edict of Nantes (1598)
• Reform in Spain
  • Habsburg Spain
    • Phillip II
    • Problems with The United Provinces
    • Problems with England and Elizabeth I
  • Counter-Reformation in Spain
    • Spainish Inquisition
• The Thirty Years' War
  • Peace of Augsburg (1555)
  • 2nd Defenstration of Prague (1618)
  • Peace of Westphalia (1648)